Sentences with word «sentencer»

CN, but isn't that apocalyptic scenario you lay out perfectly consistent with the traditional role of the judge as sentencer?

He said: «A free press is part of any effective democracy... but there is a responsibility on politicians and sentencers not to overreact in such circumstances.»

Jack Straw said sentencers did not operate in a vacuum and it appeared that calls in the media for tougher sentencing and the return of the death penalty had a «tangible effect» on the prison population.

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NACRO thought «this would help to maintain consistent sentencing levels over time and guard against an upward drift in sentencing as a result of improper pressure from the media or political criticism of sentencers».

A reprinting of my remarks appear here as Encouraging (and Even Requiring) Prosecutors to be Second - Look Sentencers, 19 Temp.

«The Sentencing Council's guideline brings sentencing guidance together for the first time to help ensure consistent and proportionate sentencing and provide effective guidance for sentencers and clear information for victims, witnesses and the public on how drug offenders are sentenced.»

It would be unrealistic to think that sentencers could be completely inured against the coverage of these cases,» he said.

«In many cases it is grossly disproportionate, it fetters judicial discretion, and creates perverse incentives — not only for defendants to plead guilty but for sentencers to reduce awards of compensation and prosecution costs.

Part of the problem is that in criminal proceedings the sentencer can not be accessed until late in proceedings: there are no deferred prosecution agreements and no guarantees can be given as to sentence by the prosecutor.

Sentencers, proud of their judicial independence, will send more people to prison given that the offences, having by definition crossed the custody threshold, deserve it.

The sentencer also has to take account of the matters set out in CJA 2003, s 142 including deterrence.

However, Lord Carter adds by way of reassurance, sentencers «would, of course, continue to pass sentences on the evidence and aggravating and mitigating factors in each case» — though, in order that departure is kept to the minimum, «the breadth of the range would be designed to account for the majority of usual aggravating and mitigating factors» (Ch 3, paras 30, 34, 35).